Guidance

MCERTS: performance standard for laboratories testing samples from stack emissions monitoring

How to analyse samples taken to monitor pollution released from chimney stacks.

From:
Environment Agency
Published
8 February 2017
Last updated
7 January 2019 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Performance Standard for laboratories carrying out testing of samples from stack emissions monitoring

Ref: LIT 10640

PDF, 531 KB, 32 pages

Details

This MCERTS standard requires laboratories that analyse stack emissions monitoring samples to be accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) to ISO 17025 and to the requirements set out in this document.

Published 8 February 2017
Last updated 7 January 2019 + show all updates

  1. Document reformatted and reordered to comply with changes to ISO 17025.

  2. Amended some performance targets in Annex A. Minor corrections to text to add clarity.

  3. First published.

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